Biographies

CharmianHoare

Areas of Expertise

Dialect

Voice

Charmian has been a voice and dialect specialist coaching actors for the past 30 years. She was trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama where she did the teachers course, obtaining a Bachelor of Education degree and then went on to do the Voice course specializing in voice and dialect training.

During her early career she worked at RADA and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she helped to train many young actors who have gone on to successful careers. Ewan McGregor, Daniel Craig, Damien Lewis, James Dreyfuss, Orlando Bloom, Daniel Evans, Monica Dolan, Michael Sheen and Natasha Little to name but a few.

She also has a long association with the Royal Shakspeare Company. She worked there full time for a year in 1990 as an assistant to Andrew Wadein the Voice Department and since then has been employed to work on numerous productions both as a voice coach and dialect coach in London and in Stratford. During her time at the RSC not only was she working individually with actors on language and text and vocal technique but also running vocal warm ups and helping actors with the vocal demands of the theatre spaces.

Her theatre work as a dialect coach is extensive and she has worked on productions at the Royal National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, The Young Vic, The Almeida theatre, The Royal Court, Royal Exchange theatre Manchester, Chichester Festival Theatre, Birmingham Rep, Salisbury Playhouse and Derby Playhouse. And abroad she has worked for the Theatre for a New Audience, New York and Shakespeare Festival theatre, Stratford Ontario, Canada.

Credits

Mosquitoes, Barbershop Chronicles, The Consent, George And The Dragon, Deep Blue Sea, the Plough And the Stars, Peter Pan, Ugly Lies The Bone, The Consent, Angels In America, Pinocchio, Network (National Theatre)

Blue Door, Abigail’s Party, While The Sun Shines, Talking Heads, Half A Life, The Things we Do For Love, Blythe Spirit (Theatre Royal Bath)

Curious Incident Of The Dog In the Night (National Tour)

Million Dollar Quartet (UK Tour)

Quizz, Fiddler On The Roof, Forty Years On, Mack And Mabel, Educating Rita , The way Of The World, A Marvellous Year For Plums, Goodnight Mr Tom, Singing In The Rain, Love Story, Separate Tables, The Music Man, Taking Sides, Babes In Arms, Twelfth Night, Carousel, In Praise Of Love (Chichester Festival Theatre)

The Nap

Oklahoma (National Tour)

Road, Rock n Roll (Royal Court)

The Hook, The Herbal Bed, The Lovely Bones (Northampton Royal and Derngate)

Made In Dagenham (Queens Theatre)

Frost and Nixon, Kiss Me Kate (Sheffield Crucible)

Ghost

Welcome Home Mr Fox, One Night In Miami (Donmar Warehouse)

12 Angry Men

Jekyll & Hyde (UK Tour)

Jesus Hopped The A Train (Young Vic)

Albion, Against, The Treatment, The Game, House Of Games (Almeida)

Luna Gale, Rabbit Hole (Hampstead Theatre)

7 Brides For 7 Brothers, The Crucible, The Boyfriend (Regents Park Open Theatre)

Barefoot In The Park

Wordsworth, Handbagged, Suddenly Last Summer, Of Mice And Men, Round The World In Eighty days, Rebecca, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Wolf (Theatre By The Lake, Keswick)